Catherine Webb > Quotes

“Oh, for Time's sake, this is too pathetic. You'd end the universe, because you've had a bad century?”
― Catherine Webb, Waywalkers

“Horatio Lyle hit the floor, the floor hit him, and the floor came out the winner. It was in times like these, he told himself, when Newton's Second Law really made its point.”
― Catherine Webb, The Dream Thief

“The thunder rolled, one last time. It poured through the narrow, dirty black streets, slid into the gaps between cobbles, rippled across the water of the river, made the still bells hum, and passed on, spreading out into the countryside beyond, where it bent the grass, whispered in the trees and eventually died away.”
― Catherine Webb, The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle

“He sighed. ‘Phrenology is where the size and shape of your skull determines whether you dunnit or not.”
― Catherine Webb, The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle

“The doorkeeper of the Norfolk Club was a man by the name of Cartiledge. As a youth, his heart had been romantic, his head had been poetic and his political affiliations had been conservative to an extreme. He hadn’t planned on a life of holding the door open for the aristocracy, and years of bowing to nobility had given him a sense both of what Karl Marx had been on about, and of profound, world-weary depression. Nothing interesting happened at the Norfolk Club.”
― Catherine Webb, The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle

“out of it glided ladies in dresses that trailed along in a rustle of silk, men who swept their hats off with the same grandeur with which they swung their canes, liveried servants with impassive expressions, expectant drivers and porters bearing lighted candles.”
― Catherine Webb, The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle

“Lincoln’s smile could have scared rattlesnakes.”
― Catherine Webb, The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle